Sometime after the gig we decided to capture the work and turn it in to an album.’įor Lori, the album is about loss, ‘especially grief around the edges of growing out of something in order to move toward something else. ‘I’d already started on some of the tracks, but it gave us an opportunity to present them as a composition around their connected themes.
‘We were asked to play a gig at the Tate in March 2017’ recalls Lori.
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‘A Hopeless Place’ was initiated by a commission from Wolfgang Tillmans to perform at the Tate Modern’s South Tanks, part of a concert series curated by the artist in parallel to his 2017 retrospective at the gallery. Even if the changes are very minor, they really affect the emotion of each piece’ Spafford says. It wasn’t possible to record all the instruments separately as we respond to each others improvisation. Because of this, the album was recorded with ambient mics capturing multiple instruments. There are triggers and moments that signal moving to another part of the music, but the timings and lengths largely depend on our moods and interpretation on a given day/performance. ‘Crucially the music is improvised – it is never the same twice. During these sessions, the feeling of a songs’ words or the emotional tone of a sound can spark sudden mood changes, altering the arc of the compositions. She then shares this base with Wale and Spafford who embellish or delete, the three building the pieces through long improvised sessions in London, playing late into the night.
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Allen will create a bed of loops, field recordings or a full framework. Their writing process takes the form of structured improvisation. That release served to resurrect a hibernating creative practice between the three friends.
The trio first collaborated on Lori E Allen’s ‘Tears of the Material Vulture’ cassette on The Tapeworm, a re-imagination of a brief collaboration with Madame Chaos of cut-up cablecasts, 1995-1996, on Manhattan Neighborhood Network and Television in New York City. Founded in 2015, Tears|Ov are sound artist/self-taught musician Lori E Allen, classically trained cellist/mixed media artist Katie Spafford and illustrator/prison psychotherapist Deborah Wale.